*****Born and raised in the Bay Area since 2018, Underbelly is now expanding to NYC!*****
Underbelly: The Art of Slowing Down™ is a non-verbal, somatic movement & meditation practice immersed in music for a slower body. It is a response to the loss of slowness and spaciousness in our dominant culture which survives on speed keeping problematic, oppressive, and destructive systems in place at the cost of our well-being and planetary health. It's time to dismantle the hurry and reclaim our slow in a fast and overwhelming world.
We prioritize and center nervous system (co)regulation, emotional metabolization, nourishment, boredom, living in the questions, complexity, rest, subtlety, listening, communion, and attuned relationship over modernity’s urgency, linearity, transaction, instant gratification, polarization, addiction to consumption, and incessant stimulation. It is a practice that doesn't tell or precisely instruct, but gives people permission to step out of ingrained sociocultural programming so they can actually be where they are, take their time, go their pace, and follow their organic unfoldment through deeper listening/yielding vs. pushing/controlling.
Here, we exist in truer presence and intimacy with one another giving rise to our somatic and vital intelligence without needing to look or be "right." In the age of loneliness, screens and AI, may we continue to incrementally and progressively strengthen the connective tissue of how we relate and nourish the foundational fabric of our humanity.
Voyage beneath the surface of our fast culture, and sink into a slow sanctuary for unearthing what is alive, tender, and honest for you in every moment.
***This experience is not performative/postured/appropriated spirituality, nor a movement method, workshop, or ecstatic dance/contact improv jam/cuddle party. It is not a quick fix or the next dopamine hit. It's a kindred community that values energetic sensitivity, being in process, self-inquiry, and exploring relational dynamics. Underbelly is a trauma informed space.
***Every Underbelly experience varies depending on what is alive in the group field at that given time:
Schedule:
See current schedule/get tickets here
Join our Whatsapp group to stay in the loop!
***Please note:
1) Underbelly Bay Area will pause at the start of 2025....new Underbelly team in training and we'll start as soon as we are ready.
2) Zoom Underbelly likely to begin again...TBA.
3) Underbelly NYC begins in March!
Logistics:
Please read What to Expect before attending!
About the Creator:
Amy Rogg (she/her) is an activator and nurturer of the human spirit. She is half Taiwanese/half white of Jewish descent, born in Denver Colorado and raised mostly in the Bay Area. She is the conduit, creator, and facilitator of Underbelly: The Art of Slowing Down. Amy has a B.A. in television/film production and studied acting/improv in Los Angeles. She has led yoga (E-RYT 500) and meditation for over a decade, is a certified herbalist, and has been facilitating/engaging in somatic and relational movement practices since 2012. She has re-located from the Bay Area to New York City.
Some of her inspirations: nature/the Wild, Hakomi, GAGA, Continuum, The Artist's Way, Movement Liberation, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Gabor Maté, Stephen Jenkinson, Jacob Collier, Jonna Jinton, Paul Bergner, Heather Luna, Anna Halprin, Resmaa Menakem, Sarah Blondin, Bill Plotkin, Sophie Strand, Marc-André Leclerc, Jeong Kwan, Yat Malmgren, David Whyte, Qi Gong, Yoga, Butoh, Contact Improvisation/Underscore, Fusion/Microfusion, Blindfolded Contact, Open Floor, Soul Motion, Dancing Freedom, 5 Rhythms, Ecstatic Dance, romantic relationships, and her parents (mama in spirit).
Thank You's: (to the people/places that have been instrumental to the spirit, birth and life of Underbelly!)
Ashley Apple, Jan Verweij, Geo Morjane, Jackie Cheng, Michael Ducott, Derek van der Schroeff, Little Boxes Theater, Ellen Webb Studio, Kathyrn Devaney and the Berkeley Alembic, Tyler Alterman, Evan Kelso, Brandon Lee, Eva Smith, Shane Dyer, Adam Chacksfield, Shannon Sahaja, Kelsey Wunderle, Jordan Parker and all Underbelly collaborators/volunteers/musicians over the years!
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Underbelly: The Art of Slowing Down™ is a non-verbal, somatic movement & meditation practice immersed in music for a slower body. It is a response to the loss of slowness and spaciousness in our dominant culture which survives on speed keeping problematic, oppressive, and destructive systems in place at the cost of our well-being and planetary health. It's time to dismantle the hurry and reclaim our slow in a fast and overwhelming world.
We prioritize and center nervous system (co)regulation, emotional metabolization, nourishment, boredom, living in the questions, complexity, rest, subtlety, listening, communion, and attuned relationship over modernity’s urgency, linearity, transaction, instant gratification, polarization, addiction to consumption, and incessant stimulation. It is a practice that doesn't tell or precisely instruct, but gives people permission to step out of ingrained sociocultural programming so they can actually be where they are, take their time, go their pace, and follow their organic unfoldment through deeper listening/yielding vs. pushing/controlling.
Here, we exist in truer presence and intimacy with one another giving rise to our somatic and vital intelligence without needing to look or be "right." In the age of loneliness, screens and AI, may we continue to incrementally and progressively strengthen the connective tissue of how we relate and nourish the foundational fabric of our humanity.
Voyage beneath the surface of our fast culture, and sink into a slow sanctuary for unearthing what is alive, tender, and honest for you in every moment.
***This experience is not performative/postured/appropriated spirituality, nor a movement method, workshop, or ecstatic dance/contact improv jam/cuddle party. It is not a quick fix or the next dopamine hit. It's a kindred community that values energetic sensitivity, being in process, self-inquiry, and exploring relational dynamics. Underbelly is a trauma informed space.
***Every Underbelly experience varies depending on what is alive in the group field at that given time:
- Movement forms are welcome (authentic/personal movement, sensory/somatic movement, movement with others etc).
- Meditative forms are welcome (resting, pausing, stillness, being-ness, witnessing, observing, doing nothing etc).
- Participants may explore being solo.
- Participants may explore being with others in the form of proximal space (connection without physical touch). This gives people time to feel what is energetically alive in the spaces between us so we can stay in our own experience while being with others, explore subtler notes of interaction, and not rush into learned habits.
- Participants may eventually explore consensual physical touch after sustained time in proximal space.
- Music: emotional, soulful, slow, spacious, deep, symphonic, film scores, meditative, ambient, experimental, nature sounds, silent, and live.
- All are welcome. No prior experience or preconceived notions necessary, you'll absorb and discover as you go.
Schedule:
See current schedule/get tickets here
Join our Whatsapp group to stay in the loop!
***Please note:
1) Underbelly Bay Area will pause at the start of 2025....new Underbelly team in training and we'll start as soon as we are ready.
2) Zoom Underbelly likely to begin again...TBA.
3) Underbelly NYC begins in March!
Logistics:
Please read What to Expect before attending!
About the Creator:
Amy Rogg (she/her) is an activator and nurturer of the human spirit. She is half Taiwanese/half white of Jewish descent, born in Denver Colorado and raised mostly in the Bay Area. She is the conduit, creator, and facilitator of Underbelly: The Art of Slowing Down. Amy has a B.A. in television/film production and studied acting/improv in Los Angeles. She has led yoga (E-RYT 500) and meditation for over a decade, is a certified herbalist, and has been facilitating/engaging in somatic and relational movement practices since 2012. She has re-located from the Bay Area to New York City.
Some of her inspirations: nature/the Wild, Hakomi, GAGA, Continuum, The Artist's Way, Movement Liberation, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Gabor Maté, Stephen Jenkinson, Jacob Collier, Jonna Jinton, Paul Bergner, Heather Luna, Anna Halprin, Resmaa Menakem, Sarah Blondin, Bill Plotkin, Sophie Strand, Marc-André Leclerc, Jeong Kwan, Yat Malmgren, David Whyte, Qi Gong, Yoga, Butoh, Contact Improvisation/Underscore, Fusion/Microfusion, Blindfolded Contact, Open Floor, Soul Motion, Dancing Freedom, 5 Rhythms, Ecstatic Dance, romantic relationships, and her parents (mama in spirit).
Thank You's: (to the people/places that have been instrumental to the spirit, birth and life of Underbelly!)
Ashley Apple, Jan Verweij, Geo Morjane, Jackie Cheng, Michael Ducott, Derek van der Schroeff, Little Boxes Theater, Ellen Webb Studio, Kathyrn Devaney and the Berkeley Alembic, Tyler Alterman, Evan Kelso, Brandon Lee, Eva Smith, Shane Dyer, Adam Chacksfield, Shannon Sahaja, Kelsey Wunderle, Jordan Parker and all Underbelly collaborators/volunteers/musicians over the years!
Whatsapp group